MR. MACDONALD CAMERON (Wick)I beg to ask the Postmaster General whether, considering the large surplus in the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the financial year 1889–90, he is now prepared to make such arrangements for the earlier delivery of southern mails in Dingall, Cromarty, Tain, Dornoch, Wick, and Kirkwall, particularly the two latter, as was recently asked for?
§ *THE POSTMASTER GENERAL (Mr. RAIKES,) University of CambridgeI do not think I should be justified in incurring additional expenditure on the Mail Service to the Highland District; but, as already stated, in reply to a question which the hon. Member put to me on the 17th, I am considering whether improved arrangements can be effected without a further charge on the Revenue. The hon. Member should be aware that the repetition of questions on this point can only tend to prejudice the satisfactory result of any negotiations carried on with this object.